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Ronald Colman: Lillian Gish
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"Champagne for Caesar" was the last film in which Ronald Colman played the romantic lead. He had been a leading man since he was discovered by Lillian Gish and cast as the hero in The White Sister in 1923. A rare star of both the silent and sound eras, he had recently (1948) won an Oscar for A Double Life, but had not made a film in two years. All that remained in his career was a cameo in Around the World in 80 Days, and a role as "The Spirit of Man" in The Story of Mankind.
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Colman began with small parts in the theater. His (silent) film career received its greatest impetus in the two films he made with Lillian Gish, The White Sister and Romola. Handsome, graceful, exuding good nature, he complemented Gish, and demonstrated the magnetism that captured the public in subsequent starring vehicles such as The Dark Angel and Beau Geste. Reviewers of the time noted that Colman was stepping into the shoes of Rudolph Valentino and John Gilbert.
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This was the last film in which Ronald Colman played the romantic lead. He was born in the Victorian age, in 1891. An unenthusiastic student, and after finishing schoolwas glad of the excuse of WW I to leave his boring office job to join combat in France in a regiment known as “The Ladies from Hell” owing to the fact their uniforms were kilts. He was wounded and discharged from the service, and fell into an acting job, in part because of his good looks and mellifluous voice, even though he still walked with a pronounced limp from his war injury. Acting allowed a shy young man to show off in ways disapproved of in polite society, and he was hooked. After some success on the stage in Britain, he was discovered by Lillian Gish and cast as her sensitive Italian lover in the silent film, The White Sister in 1923.
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